Improvement in cheese-presses



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN BETE-EAT, OF NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND MARTIN O. MILLER, OFORISKANY FALLS, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN CH EESE-PRESSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 40. |50. datedSeptember 29, 1863.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, JOHN L. TREAT, of the city, county, and State of NewYork, have invented a certain new and Improved Cheese- Press 5 and I dohereby declare thefollowing to be a full and exact description of thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part ofthis specification, in whichv Figure l is a side elevation of myimproved device, sho wing the position of the parts when supporting andcompressing a cheese. Fig. 2 is a plan or top view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalfigures.

The subject of this invention is a cheesepress, whereby the originalshape and consistency of the'cheese, on being removed from the mold, maybe preserved until it has become sufliciently rm and solid to render anyfurther compression unnecessary.

The invention consists in a certain combination and arrangement ofmechanical devices by which the weight ot' the cheese l(used as theprime motor of said mechanism) may be more eectually and advantageouslyemployed in compressing itself'.

To enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains tofully understand and use the same, I will proceed to describ itsconstruction and operation.

In the accompanying illustration, A is a wooden frame or standard, towhich is pivoted at B an arm or platform, B, in the outer end of whichis tted a disk, C, on which the cheese (indicated by the letter D) is tobe placed and supported. The outer portion of the said arm or support Bis so formed, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, as to constitute the under jawof a clamp, the upperjaw, E, of which is pivoted at E to the arm B.

E2 represents an arm or extension of the jaw E, the form of which isrepresented by dotted outline in Fig. 1 and the object of which will behereinafter explained.

Formed upon or rigidly attached to the arm B, at right angles therewith,and projecting' downward therefrom, is a forked arm, F.

G is a lever extending in an obliquely-upward direction, and fulcrumedor pivoted at G on the standard A. This lever G is provided with an arm,g, near its lower or pivoted end, upon whichis formed or attached a pin7g', workin g between the prongs on the end cf the arm or lever F.

From the foregoing description it will be between the top of said cheeseand the end ot' the jaw E. The arm or platform B is thus slightlydepressed, which causes the lever F to move in a backward direction,thereby transmitting motion to the lever or arm G through the medium ot'the pin g on the arm g. working in the slotted end of the lever F. Themotion thus imparted to the lever G causes it to approach a verticalposition, and this movement is continued until its upper end comes incontact with the arm or exten. sion E2 of the jaw E, which arm itimmediately elevates until the said jaw E is pressed firmly against thedisk covering the cheese, when the parts remain at rest. The pressureexerted upon the cheese may be regulated by varying the length of thelever G, the leverage of the jaw E being increased or diminishedaccording as said lever G is allowed to come in contact therewith at apoint a greater or less distance from its fulcrum E.

rlhe invention may readily be so modified as to adapt it for theoriginal pressing of the cheese. This can be done by placing the commoncheesehoop with its incloscd heads between the clamp-jaws B E, andplacing beneath the end of thejaw E blocks of sufficient thickness tokeep the said jaw from contact with the hoop in customary manner. rlhehoop being lled with curd, the jaw E descends and presses or molds itinto the desired shape. The cheese may be removed,.

when desired, by slightly drawing or pressing down the lever G. Thepressure being thus removed from the arm of the jaw E, theI cheese maybe taken from its seat upon the I claim as new therein, and desire tosecure i The above specification of my improved by Letters Patent,ischeese-press sighed this 8th day of August,

The combination of the three levers B F, E 1863. j E2, and G gconstructed in the manner described, thetrst two forming clamp-jaws, J LTREAT' and the Whole operating together to consti Vitnesses: tute anautomatic press, as and for the pur- J AMES H. GRIDLEY, pose specified.CHARLES SMITH.

